Category: Forward thinking

New Beginnings

We have started planting out our new orchard with an assortment of  fruits and vegetable’s

This isn’t because I’m some sort of vegan, but about building resilence into our live’s, since we aren’t sure where world events could take us in the future.

If you need to ask ‘why?’ I will simply point you to how things went during the covid years in NZ.

One might say ‘Oh, but thats in the past’.

Perhaps it is, but the mindset and some of the conditions for mass hysteria are still out there.

Namely,

  1. Many socially isolated people living in the absense of community and social ties
  2. A large number of people experiencing a lack of meaning in their lives.
  3. Many waves of free-flowing anxiety washing over society
  4. Widespread psychological and social dissatisfaction.

More info on mass hysteria is here…

https://uncoffined.wordpress.com/2021/12/12/covid-has-triggered-mass-psychosis-and-vaccines-of-reason-are-useless/

Our new house -part 6

Although we are blessed with two wonderful children, I think my wife would have have liked a third one.
Our kids are teenagers now, so the pitter patter of little feet had become a distant memory.

So with that in mind, and the fact we have started a new life in the country, it seemed appropriate that we should finally have that third youngster running around the house.

And here she is….

Continue reading “Our new house -part 6” →

Finding that perfect house -part four

Our first night in our new house was eerily quiet and dark.
It’s located out in the country and there’s only the sound of birds at dawn and dusk.

At night, we can hear a morepork (owl).
If it’s a moonless night, it’s DARK.

In contrast, our old house was on a busy road in a city.

Our new house was owned by an older guy in poor health, which meant maintenance around the house was understandably neglected.
The roof needed cleaning, the gutters fixed up, light bulbs needed changing, etc
None of this was any big deal.

The section however, is overgrown with agapanthers and some very large privet tree’s.

Those  agapanthus are a LOT of work to remove.
Basically, you have to dig them out, leaving none of the rizhomes (big root thingy’s) behind, otherwise they grow back..   

If you are lucky, you can get a rope around them and pull them out with a car, which only works with the smaller ones.